Long Train Ride

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Artist Barry A. Gealt (American, born 1941)

Title Long Train Ride

Date 1983

Medium Oil on canvas

Dimensions Framed: 37 × 61 × 2 1/4 in. (94 × 154.9 × 5.7 cm)

Credit Line Gift of Ann Shilling Harrison in memory of Wade C. “Rusty” Harrison II, Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University

Accession Number 2019.170

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About this Work

A trip to Italy inspired this painting by Barry Gealt, who was a professor of painting in IU’s School of Fine Arts from 1969 to 2009. In this work, which evokes the often solitary nature of twentieth-century travel, Gealt’s wife, Adelheid (Heidi), Director Emeritus of the Eskenazi Museum of Art, sits alone in a train compartment, en route from Mantua to Florence.

Before he abandoned figure painting to concentrate on landscapes (around the mid-1980s), Gealt often used Heidi as a model. It is fitting, then, that Heidi Gealt herself has extensively researched how artists have portrayed their spouses and family members in their work.

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